CBS Films is planning a film adaptation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, reports Variety, saying Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are producing the movie. "As is clear from the wild success of the game, Square Enix and Eidos-Montreal know how to exceed their audience's expectations by engineering incredible worlds," said Terry Press, co-president of CBS Films. "No one knows 'Human Revolution' like the team that created it, and we look forward to working with them from day one to make a film adaptation worthy of the 'Deus Ex' name." Thanks Eurogamer.

It could work. I'd say there's a 95% chance that it won't work, but Human Revolution certainly has interesting characters and ideas that could transition well. The plot would have to be streamlined, of course. The biggest challenge for the writers would be making the protagonist more interesting... they would need to give plenty of screen time to his inner struggles with augmentation (these are only alluded to in the game, by means of his apartment).

Unfortunately it's likely that this would turn into a tedious action flick with an hour or more of Adam hiding behind crates whacking bad guys over the head with augmentations.